STRATEGIC PLANNING: 20052010

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STRATEGIC PLANNING 2005-2010

• COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
• GEORGIA TECH
• Academic Year 2005-06

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COE STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS

• Steering committee selected faculty, alumni,
  chairs
• Workshop with 50 faculty, school chairs (Feb.
  2005)
• 1st Workshop with Engineering Advisory Board
  (Apr. 2005)
• Consolidation of recommendations, discussions
  (Aug. 2005)
• 2nd Workshop with Engineering Advisory Board
  (Oct. 2005)
• Further consolidation with Steering Committee
  finalization of four strategic goals (Oct. 2005)
• Discussion with schools chairs (Nov. 2005)
• Next steps
• Faculty meetings in each school, full COE
  discussions on Goals and Objectives for each
  goal Nov. 2005 Jan. 2006
• Completion of Objectives and Action Plans March
  April 2006

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BACKGROUND FOR COE STRATEGIC PLANNIING PROCESS

• SMALL NUMBER (5) OF STRATEGIC GOALS
• OBJECTIVES TO BE LINKED TO RESOURCES
• S-P SHOULD ASSIST IN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (e.g.,
  Capital Campaign, Research Enhancement, Tuition)
• S-P SHOULD GUIDE RESOURCE DEPLOYMENT (e.g.,
  Faculty recruiting, UG and G program investments)
• A LIVING DOCUMENT

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BIG CHALLENGES FOR COE

• DECLINING STATE SUPPORT
• DECLINING FEDERAL FUNDING FOR RESEARCH
• GLOBALIZATION (Education, Jobs, RD)
• PACE OF CHANGE
• EDUCATION IMPORTANT BUT NOT URGENT!

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TRANSFORMING THEMES FOR COEEducating engineers
who care..

• Leadership in engineering education
• Emphasize learning, interdisciplinary study
• Preparation for the Engineer of 2020
• Research in areas of global significance
• Health, Energy, Security, Environment
• Discovery-to-application philosophy
• Foundation of basic research and discovery
• Translation to usefulness for society

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COE Vision As the largest U.S. College of
Engineering, we will be an exemplary leader in
technological education, research and service
that anticipates, and meets, the needs of
tomorrows world.
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COE STRATEGIC GOALS2005-2010

• Develop rigorous, innovative, experiential
  educational programs that integrate disciplines
  and that engage students in the excitement of
  learning, motivate their passion for positive
  societal impact and develop leaders for the
  future.
• Using our areas of excellence and
  interdisciplinary culture, invest in research and
  educational programs involving issues of global
  significance.
• 3. Recruit, develop and retain a diverse
  faculty, staff and student body committed to
  excellence.
• 4. Provide the infrastructure, incentives and
  reward system to support our discovery-to-applicat
  ion vision.

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Goal 1 Proposed Objectives

• Improve the quality of our graduates at all
  degree levels, while maintaining leadership as
  the largest engineering college in the U.S.
• 2. Integrate international, research,
  work/service experiences and leadership
  opportunities into all engineering bachelors
  degrees.
• 3. Incorporate learning science, educational
  technology and interdisciplinary approaches into
  all our undergraduate programs, and be widely
  recognized for this.
• 4. Explore creating a new, innovative, rigorous
  and flexible bachelors degree that will serve as
  a foundation for advanced study in professions
  other than, and including, engineering.
• 5. Establish graduate degree programs in
  collaboration with other universities in
  strategic regions around the globe.

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Goal 2 Proposed Objectives

• Become recognized globally as the destination
  college for education and research at the
  intersection of engineering and the life
  sciences, leveraging on our strong partnerships
  with the College of Sciences at Georgia Tech and
  with Emory University.
• Secure at least five additional major centers of
  excellence in areas of global importance, such as
  health, security, energy and the environment,
  partnering with other colleges at Georgia Tech
  and with other universities.
• Develop, with other colleges at GT, at least two
  interdisciplinary educational programs for our
  undergraduates that address important global
  issues (e.g., technology in the 3rd World water
  resources clean air megacities).
• Provide students with an appreciation of the
  leadership role of engineering in solving global
  problems.

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Goal 3 Proposed Objectives

• Recruit, retain and promote the success of women
  and under represented minority faculty and attain
  a percentage representation that places COE as
  the top institution within the Big 10 group by
  2010.
• Recruit, retain and promote the success of women
  and under represented minority students to attain
  a percentage representation that places COE as
  the top institution within the Big 10 group by
  2010.
• 3. Develop and implement programs for mid-career
  success for faculty and staff, including emphasis
  on leadership opportunities.
• Be the top public engineering program with
  respect to GRE scores of entering graduate
  students by 2010.
• Be among the top five (? needs analysis)
  academic institutions in NAE membership by 2010.

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Goal 4 Proposed Objectives

• Develop financial practices, workload models and
  reward systems that are incentives to reaching
  our strategic goals.
• 2. Achieve a studentfaculty ratio at the
  undergraduate level of XX and at the doctoral
  level of YY by 2010 (needs careful data
  analysis).
• 3. Add ZZ square feet of research and educational
  space for COE by 2010 (needs analysis).
• 4 Be among the top three in the Big 10
  engineering programs in externally sponsored
  research per faculty member.
• 5. Establish priorities, goals and methodologies
  for increasing endowments for undergraduate and
  graduate fellowships and scholarships, endowed
  chairs and professorships, and new space and
  facilities.

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Next Steps

• Define and Prioritize Objectives
• Develop Action Plans and Metrics for Assessing
  Progress and Success
• Establish Working Groups for Implementation and
  Monitoring Progress
• Keep the Plan a Living Document
• Remember The ideas are not unique and the
  competition is strong Its Performance That
  Counts!

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